Sheila Clover English is the CEO of Circle of Seven Productions (COS Productions), a multi-award winning productions company that specializes in book video for all genres of books - both fiction and non-fiction. COS Productions took the idea of “music videos sell CD’s” and applied it to books - they coined the term Book Trailers(R) and have thus become a leader in the book video business. They’ve created hundreds of book video, many of which have appeared in movie theatres during the time that movie trailers play. Additionally, they’ve appeared on television - SciFi Channel, Women’s Entertainment Channel, Lifetime Channel, A & E, CBS, Clear Channel Television, and ABC, to name a few.
COS Productions recently launched Reader’s Entertainment Television (RECtv), an online entertainment source for readers that offers original programming, such as The Lonesome Losers comedy series, author interview programs, documentaries, industry news shows, production partner project programs - and any other forms of online entertainment that have anything to do with books and/or reading. A whiz at selecting hunky models for book videos, Sheila Clover English will have no problem selecting the winning Derek.
The Producer
As a former Senior Vice President at RCA/BMG and independently, Bill Rosenfield is the executive producer of over 50 Original Cast Recordings of Broadway productions, including the currently running Chicago, Avenue Q, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, as well as the Tony Award winning musicals Thoroughly Modern Millie, Urinetown, Cabaret, Ragtime, Titanic, Assassins, and Fosse.
Most recently, he served as Executive Producer on Oprah Winfrey’s The Color Purple, Curtains (starring David Hyde Pierce) and Legally Blonde.
Bill Rosenfield knows a winner when he sees one, as his recordings have been nominated for 30 Grammy Awards and won four times.
The Talent Agent
Gail Jones is the expert on hunky men and sizzling talent. As Owner/Director of Talent+Plus/Los Latinos Agency, the oldest talent agency (26 years) in the San Francisco Bay Area, she’s placed thousands of actors in commercials, print jobs, corporate and educational videos, television series, and feature films. Her client list includes Microsoft, Oakland As, NFL, Toyota, Coors, Harley Davidson, Pepsi, and hundreds more. She’s also cast principals in the following motion pictures - Arachnophobia, Pacific Heights, and The Principal, to name a few - as well as multiple episodes of television series, such as America’s Most Wanted, Unsolved Mysteries, Rescue 911, and Nash Bridges (NBC). Gail’s also cast talent in music videos by Santana/Michelle Branch, Luther Vandross, B.B. King, Hughey Lewis and the News, MC Hammer, and many others. In the midst of launching a new glitzy Talent+Plus/Los Latinos Agency web site later this month, Gail’s taking a break to help out with our contest … Who knows? Maybe Derek will be her next top model/actor!
The Diva
Stephanie Block is an award-winning writer and editor-in-chief of Tango Diva, a Diva-liscious community of globe-trotting female travelers. A San Francisco scenestress and member of the mile high club (no, not that mile high club), Stephanie’s passport is like first class on a holiday weekend - totally full! When she’s not spilling international shopping secrets in Marie Claire magazine, she’s editing books like, Fly Solo: The 50 Best Places on Earth for a Girl to Travel Alone. Never alone for long, she’s evaluated god-like men in over fifty countries. So who better to select the winning Derek in the country she calls home?
The Man Expert
Tara Mack is the host of Playboy Radio’s Play Date, a fun, fast-paced game show in which guys show off their dating skills and women judges help teach guys what they’re doing right and wrong in the dating world.
Catch Tara’s show, which airs on Playboy Radio, Sirius Channel 198, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time, Monday-Friday – and you’ll see why she’s qualified to pick the winning Derek.